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If Palin runs for president: Her strengths won't be a lot of help
The Chicago Tribune ^ | September 12, 2010 | Steve Chapman

Posted on 09/11/2010 1:25:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It turns out Sarah Palin left the governorship of Alaska for a better position. She's become king — King Midas, to be exact. Everything she touches turns to gold.

Her memoir, "Going Rogue," was the best-selling hardcover nonfiction volume of 2009. She's got a TV gig with Fox News that reportedly pays $1 million a year. She commands $100,000 for a speaking appearance.

But it's not all about the money. Palin has also become the fairy godmother of the Republican Party. In the Aug. 31 primaries, all five candidates she tapped with her wand came away victorious — including Joe Miller, who upset incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Those she passed over turned into pumpkins.

"Sarah Palin has special medicine," wrote John Dickerson of the liberal online magazine Slate after the primaries. "The Palin brand now grows ever stronger because other Republicans will want to access that magic."

All that looks like the perfect prelude to something even bigger. After steadfastly refusing invitations for political gatherings in Iowa, site of the first presidential contest in 2012, she's going to Des Moines on Sept. 17 for the Republican Party's annual Reagan Day dinner. To run for president, one local GOP official was quoted saying, "She needs to be here — and she's doing that with a big, high-profile event."

If she enters the race, Palin will have the inside track. A recent Gallup poll found that among Republican voters, she's more popular than Abraham Lincoln, with a 76 percent favorable rating — higher than any other potential GOP presidential candidate listed by Gallup. The nomination is starting to look like it's hers for the asking.

But appearances are deceiving.(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2012; alaska; iowa; iquitarod; joemiller; kingmidas; lisamurkowski; midas; obama; palin; palin2012; polls; romney; romneybigdig; romneycare; romneydirtytricks; romneymarriage; sarahpalin
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Impressive home page, Ridgerunner! (aka”newcomer”) heh, heh.


141 posted on 09/11/2010 3:08:24 PM PDT by Nucluside (ready)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

I do believe in free will - that’s why we have barry and every other evil roaming about .

I KNOW His voice and I know HIM and HE KNOWS me. You are about 20+ yrs too late with your preaching.

Remember, SARAH knows HIM, also. Just like Esther did. You don’t have HIM cornered for yourself. Don’t be an Elijah - as he thought/said he was the only one. He was cut down to size with that. Moreover he knew better. I trust you do, too.


142 posted on 09/11/2010 3:08:56 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: ebshumidors
I was a poll watcher in Orange Mound in Memphis.

Thank you for your service.

143 posted on 09/11/2010 3:09:58 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah, what the Hell does he know about President Ronald Reagan compared to you? LOL

Not much apparently. Reagan didn't quit. Reagan didn't whine about the unfair press. Regan didn't make excuses. Reagan just went out and won. And once he won, he led. Palin is no Ronald Reagan.

144 posted on 09/11/2010 3:10:20 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: presently no screen name
Go back and re-read your statement above.

It denies Free Will.


145 posted on 09/11/2010 3:12:16 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Palin is no Reagan.

Reagan son, Michael, totally disagrees with you. I think he knew his dad better than you. Don't you agree?
146 posted on 09/11/2010 3:12:41 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sooo many people still pissed that she didn’t ride in on a white horse and pull JD Buffoon’s chestnuts out of the fire against a backstabbing weasel. He was a lost cause. It is a shame however that those two were the best Arizona Republicans could come up with. McCain was going to spank JD’s goofy a$$ regardless of what Palin had or had not said.


147 posted on 09/11/2010 3:12:53 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

Perhaps it’s the way you read things. I haven’t read one thing we agree on yet.

GO SARAH!!


148 posted on 09/11/2010 3:14:19 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Non-Sequitur; 2ndDivisionVet
Not much apparently. Reagan didn't quit. Reagan didn't whine about the unfair press. Regan didn't make excuses. Reagan just went out and won. And once he won, he led. Palin is no Ronald Reagan.

Amen Brother

If they speak ill of her, she quits.


149 posted on 09/11/2010 3:14:55 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: libbylu
I know. She's very beautiful and she looks very young without her glasses. I think she has convinced herself that she needs the glasses to make her appear less glamourous, more her age, and more serious, but I wish she'd appear without them from time to time, if only to put that Tina Fey hag out of business.

Of course, when you look like Sarah, it's impossible not to look stunningly beeautiful.


150 posted on 09/11/2010 3:16:02 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Sarah didn’t whine - She went AROUND THEM and pulled their deceitful rug from them! They still haven’t been able to get up and recover from their crushing blow. And neither have you, it’s seems.

ONLY CONSERVATIVE EYES can see that.


151 posted on 09/11/2010 3:18:56 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
If they speak ill of her, she quits.

After a shallow statement like that maybe you should fast forward to Proverbs.

152 posted on 09/11/2010 3:19:49 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: presently no screen name
Only God is worthy of our trust. However, He uses His people to perform HIS tasks

Only if they are called by YHvH.

I believe by reading His Word that we are in the End Times
and the only players on the world stage today work for the Evil One.


153 posted on 09/11/2010 3:19:54 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: presently no screen name
Reagan son, Michael, totally disagrees with you. I think he knew his dad better than you. Don't you agree?

I disagree with his opinion.

154 posted on 09/11/2010 3:20:07 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: onyx

I think Sarah Palin looks great with or without the glasses. I was looking for a pair of glasses like hers but haven’t found any.


155 posted on 09/11/2010 3:20:31 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Non-Sequitur
And you are completely entitled to your opinion. However I would think RR’s son is in a much better position to have an informed one than you.
156 posted on 09/11/2010 3:22:20 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
"If they speak ill of her, she quits."

If they file bogus ethics complaints against her on a daily basis that cost her millions of her own money to defend, she attacks in another direction. BTW, no one can file such complaints against a sitting president.

157 posted on 09/11/2010 3:23:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
U-2012>If they speak ill of her, she quits.

After a shallow statement like that maybe you should fast forward to Proverbs.

Open the whole Word and seek the face of YHvH.

158 posted on 09/11/2010 3:23:28 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: presently no screen name
Sarah didn’t whine - She went AROUND THEM and pulled their deceitful rug from them!

Of course she did.

ONLY CONSERVATIVE EYES can see that.

You claim that only blindly following Palin can make one a conservative and I'm the one who can't see?

159 posted on 09/11/2010 3:24:01 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Berlin_Freeper
You are correct, I'm not a fan of Mc. Cain, but it could be said that this thread wouldn't even exist about Sarah, if it weren't for him.
And there are worse politicians than Mc. We have one in the White House....
160 posted on 09/11/2010 3:24:29 PM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Mamas don't let your cowboys grow up to be babies..)
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